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10/26/2010

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After Holland declared its independence, its artists relied on commissions from:
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private collectors
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Flanders, artistic activity was:

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radiated from Antwerp
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Rubens' success was due to the fact that he absorbed
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Italian tradition
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Anthony van Dyck's fame rests mainly on
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portraits
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Frans Hals' dashing brushstrokes:
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celebrate spontaneity and freedom
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Rembrandt's late style is characterised by
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lyric subtlety
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Van Goyen's landscapes enjoyed great popularity because of its:
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reduction to orderly arrangements
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The greatest Dutch landscape painter was
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Jacob van Ruysdael
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Dutch 17th century painters of still lifes
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had an ambivalent attitude toward depicted objects
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To the French, 17th century French art is
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classic
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the finest of French Caravaggist painters was
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Georges de La Tour
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Classicism was supreme in France (when?)
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after 1640s
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In his representation of human actions, Nicolas Poussin's highest aim was
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perfection
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Claude Lorraine's landscapes stressed
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IDYLLIC ASPECTS
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The model of Claude Perrault's east front of the Louvre is
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ancient Roman temple
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The interior of Palace of Versailles was inspired by
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Italian Baroque
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The dome of Hardouin-Mansart's the Invalides, 1680-1691, reflects the influence of:
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Michelangelo
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The tradition of English classicist residential architecture was founded by
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Inigo Jones
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Parthenon sculptures were designed by
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Pheidias (fl. 490-430 BC)
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Contraposto is:
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the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part
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The Doric order is characterized
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by columns without bases
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Kouros is
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an Archaic Greek statue of a standing nude youth
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Tympanum
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in classical architecture, the recessed, usually triangular area, also called Pediment, often with scupltures
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Acanthus
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an architectural ornament resembling the leaves of acanthus, a mediterranean plant
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capital
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the uppermost member of the column
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Cornice
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any projecting, horizontal element dividing a wall for decorative purposes
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Architectural order
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an architectural system based on the column and its entablature
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The true arch and its extension, the barrel vault
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was vital to roman architecture
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concrete construction
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Romans made it their chief building technique
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Roman architecture differs from the Greek one:
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by its monumental ambition
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In Roman architecture
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the doric order is always on the ground floor
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Triumphal arch
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a monumental arch erected by a Roman emperor in commemoration of his military exploits
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Roman Republican portraits
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Are images of frightening authority
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pictures of historical events
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were used on a large scale by Roman emperors
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Roman painters striving for illusionistic effects
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resigned to the absence of a consistent view of the visible world
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Pantheon in Rome
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nothing on the outside gives any hint of the interior
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There was a silver rush in bohemia (when)
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13th century
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The Cistercians separated itself from Benedictines (when)
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around 1100
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The Cistercians set up their monasteries (where)
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in well-irrigated valleys
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A church facade with a gallery of saints originated (where)
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in the twelfth century France
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At the Sedlec monastery church we are missing bell tower because
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Cistercians loved silence
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In Baroque era, the Sedlec church was restored in Gothic style because
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the Cistercian order wanted to stress its antiquity
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Bones were arranged in the Sedlec ossuary to
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demonstrate the beauty of the nether world
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Today, Gothic house may be easily recognized by
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its narrow facade and wide gate
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Big Bohemian cities were equipped with public fountains (when)
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from the 14th century
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House interiors decorated with landscape painting originated around 1500 in
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in Rome
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The model of St. Barbora church was
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St. Vitus cathedral in Prague
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Road with statues in front of the Jesuit college is called "Most" Bridge because it
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imitated Charles bridge in Prague
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In the visual arts between 1520-1600
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there were several competing tendencies
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mannerism
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appealed to a small circle of aristocrats
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mannerism emphasised
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grace and variety
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Pontormo's style characterizes:
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nearly classical beauty
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The greatest mannerist portraitist is:
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Bronzino
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The main Venetian Mannerist painter was:
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Tintoretto
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In the paintings of Bassano we find:
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realism
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In Giovanni da Bologna's scupltures we do not find:
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pathos
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Mannerist architecture:
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emphasizes picturesque devices
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Palladio's style is
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classicistic
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Leonardo's The Last Supper characterizes:
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balanced stability
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Bramante's Tempietto was built to celebrate:
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papal authority
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Michelangelo's David embodies:
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fortitude
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Michelangelo's Moses suggests:
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Towering wrath
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Michelangelo's The Sistine Ceiling proves that he:
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was deeply a religious man
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Michelangelo's The Laurentian Library
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takes considerable liberties with classicism
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Raphael's later works
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aims for expressiveness
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The first High Renaissance painter in Venice was
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Giorgione
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For Titian's composition is typical:
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the oblique view
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The first Northerner who shared the free spirit of Italian Renaissance artists was
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Matthias Grunewald
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The first Northerner who adopted the ideal of the artist as a humanistic scholar:
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Albrecht Durer
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In the North the first great portraitist was:
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Hans Holbein
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The greatest of the Netherlandish "Romanists" was:
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Jan Gossaert
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In the propaganda war, Florence presented itself as new...:
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Athens
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The visual arts ceased to be classed with crafts (when):
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during the 15th century
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The main task of the Early Renaissance artists was to:
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Reconcile Classical form with Christian content
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The first statue since antiquity that could stand by itself:
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Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-1413
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The first Life Size equestrian monument since antiquity:
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Donatello, Gattamelata, Padua, 1443
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Bruneleschi's main achievement in the dome of the Florence cathedral was:
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the dome in two separate shells
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The earliest example of the rational picture space:
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Massaccio, The Holy trinity, Sta. Maria Novella, Florence, 1425
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The first Renaissance treatises on visual arts were written by
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Alberti
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For Botticelli's paintings is typical:
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the decorative treatment of the surface
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Baroque art was closely connected with
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the strengthened Catholic faith
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Caravaggio's paintings were inspired by
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lay Christianity
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In Baroque painting Caravaggism dominated in:
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1600-1630
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Caravaggio's main Spanish disciple was:
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Jusepe Ribera
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Women began to emerge as distinct artistic personalities (when):
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about 1550
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Annibale Carracci propagated in Rome:
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roman classicism
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Ceiling painting after 1630 is characterised by:
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illusion of a limitless space
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"S. Carlo alle Quatro Fontane" by Francesco Borromini is:
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extravagantly complex
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Bernini's "David":
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controls the space it inhabits
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The wave of foundations of towns reached the eastern Central Europe (when):
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in the thirteenth century
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The regular network of streets emerged in Czech towns (when):
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in the thirteenth century
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Hall churches flourished in the eastern Central Europe (when):
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around 1400
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European church interiors were filled with art objects, which openly linked Christian mythology with historical personalities (when):
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mostly in the 14th-16th centuries
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Czech towns prospered in the years:
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1520-1620
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The advent of gunpowder artillery called for fortifications, which were:
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low and thick
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From the 16th century on, the typical bastions were:
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pointed
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The basic shape of the Renaissance house is: 
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a hollow square with a central court
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The classical orders appeared on palace fronts in:
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the 15th century Florence
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"Grisaille" is
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the painting technique using tones of a single colour
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The process of the institutionalisation of aristocracy was complete (when):
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by 1600
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Rococo is linked with
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Louis XV
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Rococo flourished foremost in:
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the decorative arts
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Jean-Antoine Watteau was
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Rubeniste
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Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin's paintings represent
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common objects and situations
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William Hogarth's paintings are:
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morality plays
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Call for a return to reason, nature, and morality in art (when):
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1750
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The author of "Thoughts on the imitation of Greek works" (1755) was:
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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In Neoclassicism, Caravaggesque tradition was revived by:
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Jacques-Louis David
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David developed his Neoclassical style in Rome:
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before French revolution of 1789
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The creator of Neoclassical portrait sculpture was:
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Antonio Canova
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The birthplace of Neoclassicism in architecture was:
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England
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Neoclassical villas were surrounded by:
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gardens which were carefuly planned to look unplanned
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Neoclassicism started to represent the conservative taste in architecture:
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after 1800
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Romanticism became art for:
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the upper middle classes
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Goya's painting "The Third May, 1808" was painted in (when):
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in 1814
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The first painter who painted patients in the insane asylum was:
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Theodore Gericault
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Eugene Delacroix was above all:
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a literary painter
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Honore Daumier's paintings demonstrate that Romantic art
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did not shrink from reality
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The greatest French Romantic landscape painter was
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Camille Corot
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The greatest English advocate of outdoor landscape painting was:
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John Constable
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In his landscapes Joseph Turner sought out:
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the unusual
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For Caspar David Friedrich's landscapes is characteristic:
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deep religious feeling
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Around 1800, the most famous artist was:
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Antonio Canova
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel's "Greek revival" was connected with:
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imperial ambitions
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The "Gothic revival" in architecture was connected with:
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nationalism
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